Commons:Batch uploading/Old city maps
Please have a look at this website. It is a digitization project of old maps. It is done by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and other institutions. They have a sizable database of old maps that are mostly in the public domain. I searched Commons for a sample of their files to find out if they have already been uploaded, and couldn't find any. These are very rare centuries-old maps and they could be invaluable for many Wikimedia projects.
The maps contain copyright watermarks which obviously don't represent the true status of the copyrights. However, if the university can be contacted and asked if they could collaborate with us and give us access to the un-watermarked maps, and in return we could offer a customized tag (like what'd been done for other mass uploads), it would save us incredible amounts of time and effort working on removing them at the Graphic lab, especially since we have enough work at our hands (just look at the Category:Images for cleanup backlog).
I hope you can start this upload soon. Regards, -- Orionist ★ talk 23:41, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
Support very nice collection --Jarekt (talk) 14:26, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
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